Pakistani parents kill daughter who talked to a boy

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani couple killed their teenage daughter by pouring acid on her face and body after they caught her talking to a boy, police and a doctor said on Thursday.

The parents of the 16-year-old confessed to police in Kotli, a town in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, that they attacked their daughter after she had spoke to the boy outside their house, said Mohammad Jahangir, a local doctor at the hospital where she was brought.

â€œThere were third-degree burns on her scalp, face, eyes, nostrils, both arms, chest, foot and lower part of legs. Even her scalp bone was exposed,â€ he said, adding that the mother initially told the hospital their daughter tried to commit suicide.

Police have arrested the parents.

Almost 1,000 women lost their lives last year in so-called â€œhonour killingsâ€ in the conservative South Asian nation, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Activists say the actual number is much higher as most cases go unreported.

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Police have arrested a mother and father in Kashmir for allegedly murdering their teenage daughter by throwing acid on her in an honour killing.

Anosh Zafar, 16, was attacked after her father, Mohammed Zafar, saw her 'standing close' to a boy, police claimed.

It is said to be the first of its kind in the Pakistani-administered region, although they are commonplace across Pakistan

Sister became suspicious after not being shown girl's face at funeral

Father suspected her of having an affair with a boy

Police officer Imtiaz Ali claims Mr Zafar and his wife confessed to killing the girl because they believed she had sullied the family's honour.

The couple was arrested on Tuesday and an autopsy confirmed that the girl died of acid burns, according to local government official Masood-ur-Rehman.

Police say the couple's eldest daughter brought the case, which took place in a small village in the southern district of Kotli, to their attention.

She became suspicious when her parents refused to allow mourners to see the face of the dead girl before burial, which is a normal practice in Kashmiri Muslim society.

Raja Tahir Ayub, another local police officer, told the BBC the girl's father was furious because he saw the girl 'looking at two boys' on a motorcycle.

Mr Ayub said: 'He took his daughter inside, beat her up and then poured acid over her with the help of his wife.'
The parents did not take the her to hospital until the next day and she died there.Muhammad Jahangir, the head of the hospital in Kotli said the girl arrived with more than 35% burns.There was no way she could survive,' he explained.

Scores of women are murdered every year for marriages or relationships not approved by their families in Pakistan.

The government made acid attacks a criminal offence punishable with life imprisonment in March.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that in 2011, at least 943 women were murdered, nine had their noses cut off, 98 were tortured, 47 set on fire and 38 attacked with acid.